Key Claims

Past Producer in Campbell county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Uranium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018749
MRDS ID DC06682
MAS/MILS ID 0560050219
Record type Site
Mineralized Area Southern Powder River basin uranium district
Current site name Key Claims
Alternate or previous names Key, Key Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.67035, 43.50078 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Campbell(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Turnercrest(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno Junction(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Antelope(hydrologic unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Campbell

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 041N 073W 30 NW Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tyuyamunite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore
Tyuyamunite Unknown
Phosphuranylite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.67035, 43.50078

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southern Powder River basin uranium district
District name Pumpkin Buttes Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner NORTH AMERICAN JC ARCHER
  • Type Operator
    Owner North American
    Year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • Produced more than 500 tons.

Comments on development

  • Inactive as of 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560050219 = newMRDS 10132271
Reporter 01-MAR-84 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey MRDS W032723 = newMRDS 10096605
Editor 25-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560050219 = newMRDS 10132271 and MRDS W032723 = newMRDS 10096605, merged and deleted. Edited again, 12-12-2011.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references